Journalism Quotes · Page 122

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any…

— Neil Postman

“I never liked the news; it pretends to be all different, every day, when in fact it is all the same.”

— Adam Roberts

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

— Nora Ephron

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be,…

— Rob Lowe

People don't want to hear the news anymore; they more worry about celebrity scandal, gossip. The news doesn't have to be truthful…

— Emanuel Sebastiao

If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.

— Dagen McDowell

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

— William Finnegan

I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.

— Claudia Kim

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to…

— Tony Auth

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care…

— Audrey Hepburn

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air…

— Edward R. Murrow

The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done…

— Bill Vaughan

Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism,…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

We never see any journalism or documentaries on the oceans and what we're doing on this Earth and how it affects the…

— Ed Schultz

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have…

— Heinrich Boll

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

— Dario Fo

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they…

— Lily Cole

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

— Amira Hass

Journalists have so much newsprint to fill, the details are the last of their considerations.

— Keith Allen

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.”

— Jasper Fforde

Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.

— Daniel Lubetzky

Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable…

— Kevin Bacon

“But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292”

— Rachel Simon

I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake…

— Paula Broadwell

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

— Barbara Boxer

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

— Jon Lovett

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

— Jim Morrison

“If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.”

— Lance Morcan

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized…

— Kaitlan Collins

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what…

— Rupert Murdoch

“in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable…

— Anonymous

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

— Joanna Newsom

There is zero chaos, we are running - this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince [Priebus] is doing a good job but…

— Donald Trump

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who…

— Erik Larson

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take…

— Jeff Zucker

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante